Balatro vs Inscryption
Reviews on Steam
Balatro
2.8× more reviews
Critical reception
Balatro
1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Balatro
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Balatro
2.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Balatro
3 years apart
Balatro
2024 · Roguelike Deckbuilder
- Reviews
- 220,000
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- love2d
- Sales (median)
- 11.0M
- Net rev
- $94.2M
Inscryption
2021 · Roguelike Deckbuilder
Daniel Mullins Games · Devolver Digital
- Reviews
- 80,000
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- unity
- Sales (median)
- 5.2M
- Net rev
- $59.4M
Tag overlap
40% shared — 2 shared tags, 2 only on Balatro, 3 only on Inscryption.
Only Balatro
RoguelikePoker
Shared
Card GameDeckbuilder
Only Inscryption
HorrorPsychological HorrorMeta
Sales estimates
Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.
Sales estimate
vv1.06.6M – 15.4M
units (median: 11.0M)
≈ $56.5M – $131.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.03.1M – 7.3M
units (median: 5.2M)
≈ $35.6M – $83.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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